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TOY BANK.

(Application filed Oct. $3, 1899.)

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W/ 7' NE SSE 8 /N VE N TOH mad 0 COOL ATTORNEYS hra'rns IJAVII) O. COOK, OF ELGIN, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE DAVID C. COOK PUBLISHING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

TOY BANK.

SoPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 640,536, dated January 2, 1900. Application filed October 2, 1899. Serial No. 732,305. (No model.)

To all, whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID C. COOK, residing at Elgin, in the county of Kane and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toy Banks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its purpose to provide a simple, handsome, and convenientlyhandled toy bank particularly adapted for to collection purposes; and it consists in certain novel arrangements and combination of parts hereinafter first described and then specifically pointed out in the appended claims, reference being had to the accompanying draw- 125 ings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved bank. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section of the same. Fig. 3 is an inverted plan view thereof. Fig. at is a detail view illus- 2o trating the application of the coin-slot guard or protecting member. Fig. 5isa detailview of the coin-slot guard detached.

My improved bank comprises a holder 1, formed of glass or other transparent material of suitable shape; but on the score of economy of manufacture I prefer to make the body of the globe shaped as shown, the lower end of which terminates in an annular contracted neck 1", whereby to form a convenient 39 means for joining it to a spun nickeled base 22, the upper end of which terminates in an annular vertical rim 2, that forms the socket for the reception of the neck 1 of the globe, which is securely held by cement, as shown 5 in Fig. 2. The base 2, just below the rim 2 has a concaved portion that forms an internal seat 2 against which the bottom face is fitted, said bottom being hinged, as at 6, and has its opposite sides slotted to pass over a no suitable apertured lug 7, made fast to the base and adapted to receive the staple end of the padlock S, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

Centrally the globetop has a coin slot 4 5 formed with a pendent integral guard lflwhich serves as a deflector for preventing the coins being tipped out of the coin-slot when the bank is turned over, said slot and guard in the manufacture of the globe being formed on the mold-line.

3 indicates what 1 term a coin-slot guard or protecting member, which consistsof a nickel disk of a circular shape and dished on a radius less than that of the globe, whereby when the said plate is fitted upon the globe a cavity or filling-space 0c is formed between it and the external face of I the globe that diminishes in area from the center to the circumference of the said plate, the purpose of which will presently appear.

The plate 3 is formed of spring metal and has a slot to register with the coin-slot in the globe, it also having inturned spring-tangs 3, the lower ends of which terminate in in turned flanges 3.

By providing a guard-body 3, as described, it will be clear that the coin-slot edges of the glass globe will be protected and danger of the said edges becoming chipped or broken by constant insertion of the coins therethrough or by trying to remove the coins by jumping them outward toward the coin-slot is reduced to the minimum.

While the tangs 3 and the ends 3 effectively serve to prevent the chipping oil? on the internal face of the glass slot, the opposing surfaces of which are reinforced by the tangs 3, the peculiar construction of the ends of the tangs 5 also serves another purpose, they acting as means for holding the plate 3 8o tightly down in position upon the top of the globe, particularly during the operation of fitting the said plate thereon.

By providing a plate curved on a less radius than the globe it is obvious that in fitting the same in place a suitable concavity to hold the secured cement under is provided.

In operation of fitting the plate upon the globe the cement is placed on the under side of the plate 8, and the spring-tangs of the said plate are then inserted into the coin-slot of the holder and the said plate pressed down sufficient until the ends 3 spring under the lower edges of the coin-slot neck 1, which ends 3 then act as a locking means for hold- 5 ing the plate 3 tightly down upon the cement while setting.

The ends 3 of the tangs may be omitted and other means provided for holding the plate 3 clamped against the cement during the setting; but I prefer to use the ends 3", as they also serve to act as guards to prevent the lower edges of the member 1 from becoming easily broken or chipped when jumping the coins toward the coin-slot. The plate 3 also serves as an ornamentation and a convenient advertising medium, as the plate may be made of any suitable diameter to hold the desired advertising matter, which matter may be stamped or inscribed thereon in any suitable manner.

A toy bank constructed as described has many advantages over the ordinary jug collecting-banks, for the reason that the body being of glass the contents thereof is always in sight. This form of bank is especially useful for Sunday-schools and other collecting societies, for the reason that the contents being always in sight the same serves to stimulate collection.

Having thus described my invention, what 1 claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. An improved collection-bank, comprising a globe-body of transparent material, having a discharge-opening at the bottom and a coin-slot at the top; and a closure for the discharge end of the globe-body; of a springmetal protecting-disk for the coin-slot, said disk being curved on a radius less than that of the globe, and having tangs adapted to project down through the coin-slot and engage the lower edges thereof, as specified.

2. As a new article; a collection-bank, consisting of a glass globe-like body having a coin-slot in its top; and an integral inwardlyprojecting coin-guard, the lower end of which terminates in a contracted throat 1"; a spunmetal base 2, having a vertical rim to receive the base 1, and the holding-cement 5 said base having a contracted portion 2 the hinged bottom piece adapted to seat against the portion 2*; the lock 8; the slotted plate 3,=said plate being curved on a radius less than that of the globe, whereby a space as, is provided between it and the globe to receive the cement 5*, said plate having pendent tangs 3 terminating in inturned flanges 3*, all being arranged substantially as shown and for the purposes described.

DAVID C. COOK.

Witnesses:

J. V. MINK, G. B. RICHARDSON. 

